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flora:

Plants considered as a group, especially the plants of a particular country, region, or time.
A treatise describing the plants of a region or time.
The bacteria and other microorganisms that normally inhabit a bodily organ or part.

fauna:

Animals, especially the animals of a particular region or period, considered as a group.
A catalog of the animals of a specific region or period.

Biome -- a grouping of the world’s flora and fauna into a large ecological province or region; also referred to as bioregion
What is flora? All plant life occurring in an area or time period especially the naturally occurring or indigenous plant life
What is fauna? All animal life in a particular reign or time period

Biome	Basic Description	Types of flora	Types of Fauna	World Location
1)Forests-	XXXX	XXXX	XXXX	XXXX
A) Rain Forest	Forest with heavy rainfall	Humus, dominant plant species produce short and tall grasses	Boa constrictors, macaws, spider monkeys, toucans, sloths, tree snails, morpho butterflies, poison-arrow frog, rhinoceros beetle	Ethiopia/Africa, Australia, Indomalania, neotropicana
B) Broadleaf /mixed broadleaf & coniferous	forests that occur in climates that are warm year-round, long dry seasons, may receive several centimeters of rain a year.	garden shrubs and trees that have "regular" leaves, rather than needles	insects	tropical and subtropical latitudes.
C) Coniferous (Taiga)	moist, cool and cold	White Spruce and Balsam Fir east of the Rockies; Red Pine, White Pine, and Hemlock in the Great Lakes Region. In British Columbia, dominant boreal trees include: Black Spruce, White Spruce, Lodgepole Pine, Ponderosa Pine, Douglas Fir, and Alpine Fir.	moose, bear, deer, wolverine, marten, lynx, wolf, snowshoe hare, vole, chipmunks, shrews, and bats	between 45 and 57 degrees North
2) Mediterranean woodland, shrub & grassland	experiences hot and dry summers, with mild and humid winters	Cork oak forests, exerript pine forests, holme oak forests	Used to consist of many large mammals but they have disappeared as a result of human influences	western reigns, between 30 and 40 degrees north, sometimes found in southern california
3) Tropical Savanna, mixed grassland & woodland	A grassland ecosystem characterized by the trees being suffiently small or widely spaced so that the canopy doesn’t close.	Acacia Senegal, Baobab, Bermuda Grass, Candelabra Tree, Elephant Grass, Gum Tree Eucalyptus, Jackalberry Tree, Jarrah tree, Kangaroo Paw, Manketti Tree, River Bushwillow, Umbrella Thorn Acacia, Whistling Thorn	African Elephant, african Wild Dog, Black Mamba, Caracal, Chacma Baboon, Egyptian Mongoose, Emu, Grant's Zebra, Koala Bear, Lion, Nigriceps Ants, Nile Crocodile	East Africa, Venezuela, Columbia, Brazil, Central America
4) Prairie & steppe grassland	Prairies are tall lands with tall grasses and Steppes are small lands with short grasses	Grasses (prairie clover, salvia, oats, wheat, barley, coneflowers)	pronghorn antelope, mule deer, prairie dogs, and coyotes,bison, elk	The prairies of the Great Plains of North America, the pampas of South America, the veldt of South Africa, the steppes of Central Eurasia, and Surrounding the deserts in Australia
5) Desert shrub	Dry aired reign with exceding evaporation of over precipitation.	Dominant growth form they can be evergreen or deciduous.	lizards and snakes	Western coastal regions between 30 and 40 degrees latitude (north and south of the equator)
6)Tundra (Alpine)-	The worlds youngest biome, treeless, and it covers about 20% if the worlds surface. The ground is permanently frozen.	Shrubs, grass, sedges, mosses. lichens	arctic fox, snow owl, polar bear, and wolves.	Near the north pole in northern north American, tops of mountains and in northern Eurasia